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AardigeAfrikaner, well said
"If your belief is not a firm conviction based on personal experience it is of no use to you or anybody else except those who receive your tithe."
Now that is one of the most honest things I have ever seen a believer write here on Blogit.
posted by
kooka_lives
on June 9, 2008 at 9:56 AM
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For he who wishes to save his life
shall loose it. It is better to be cold than luke warm. Many who profess believe shall never enter heaven. These sayings comes from the Book.
Many, but not all, "christians" are in this category. I am of the opinion that those who go to church and pray, without understanding what it is they are doing, only to try and escape hell and achieve heaven probably live in hell already and have no hope of entering the Kingdom of God in this life or the next. The question you pose (what if you are wrong in your beliefs?) is a good one to get some thinking going in the minds of those who often use this question to defend their own insecurities. They mostly know of only two choices in this matter: Either believe the tradition you are familiar with or don't believe at all. You rightly say that there are so many variations on the theme that if you really only believe for safeties sake, you can never be sure if the exact system of dogma you cling to is the "real" and "right" belief. In this case it is better to be cold and not believe at all. If your belief is not a firm conviction based on personal experience it is of no use to you or anybody else except those who receive your tithe.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on June 9, 2008 at 5:20 AM
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I have to explain the "worship him with rattlesnakes", the "worship him
without transfusions", the "worship him without doctors and medication", the "worship him by choosing particular clothing and hairstyles", the "worship him by reading one book in all your time on earth", and the oh so many varieties of Christian worship, I have to explain to the Somalis and other foreigners who arrive here, hear about these differences in worshipping behavior and question me.
God has a multiple personality disorder, possibly? Dunno. I tell them about the radical muslim differences in the worship of Alla*, sect by sect and country by country, that they didn't know about and get them to shake their heads over their own people.
Definite multiple personality.
Great post.
posted by
benzinha
on June 8, 2008 at 3:25 PM
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kooka_lives - I've never really understood how these people can reduce
their God to some petty minded tribal figure with an unbridled vanity?
As if believing one of countless godly constructs can possibly be the most important aspect of garnering favor with this incredibly shallow, merciless and vindictive God of theirs. The idea of "playing it safe" by pretending to believe is so rife with inconsistencies that it ultimately insults the integrity of their own God. It also elevates joining a specific God fan club and believing in a certain way above all else in life. Blaise Pascal proposed this "wager" over 350 years ago, it may have been intriguing back then but today it is redundant.
Still to this day however, the bible thumping knuckleheads come out of the wooodwork proposing that non believers hedge their bets, as if belief itself is all that matters to their God.
posted by
gomedome
on June 8, 2008 at 11:58 AM
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